Revista Aérea Junio/Julio 2010
June 30, 2010
Pluna receives “Airline Reliability Performance Award” from Bombardier
June 29, 2010
The Uruguayan “born again” airline received the award from Bombardier after it analyzed 150 airlines around the world, which operate Bombardier aircraft. The award is recognition of the airline’s fleet operation in safety and maintenance. Pluna was the winner in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Cessna’s Citation CJ3 and Sovereign Make Robb Report’s ‘Best of the Best’
June 29, 2010
WICHITA, Kan., June 24, 2010 Cessna Aircraft Company, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, announced today its Citation CJ3 and Citation Sovereign made Robb Report’s annual “Best of the Best” in their respective categories.
For the second consecutive year, the Citation CJ3 has been selected “Best of the Best” in the Light business jet category. The CJ3 is recognized for its speed, range, comfort, performance and single-pilot capabilities.
The Citation Sovereign was selected “Best of the Best” for the Super Midsize business jet category for its “remarkable short-field performance” as well as its range, comfort and overall value.
The Citation CJ3 received Federal Aviation Administration certification in October 2004. It has a maximum cruise speed of 417 knots at 33,000 feet. With two pilots, four passengers and baggage, the CJ3 offers more than 1,600 nautical miles of range with NBAA IFR reserves. Service ceiling is 45,000 feet and the maximum gross takeoff weight is 13,870 pounds.
Cessna expects to deliver its 300th Citation Sovereign later this year. The first Sovereign was delivered in late 2004. Certified for operations to 47,000 feet, the Sovereign can take off from airfields as short as 3,640 feet and has a range of 2,847 nautical miles and a maximum cruise speed of 458 knots true airspeed.
FAA Selects Pratt & Whitney for CLEEN Technologies Program, Targets the Environmentally-Friendly PurePower(r) Engines
June 29, 2010
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 24, 2010 – The Federal Aviation Administration
(FAA) announced today that Pratt & Whitney has been awarded a one-year
contract with extension options, which will assist Pratt & Whitney to
further develop and mature new jet engine technologies aimed at reduced
fuel burn, noise and emissions under the FAA’s Continuous Lower Energy,
Emissions and Noise (CLEEN) technology development program. The funding
will support ongoing development of advanced technologies for the new
game-changing PurePower engine family with the geared turbofan(tm)
architecture. Pratt & Whitney is a United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX)
company.
Under the CLEEN program, the FAA will support the development and
commercialization of CLEEN technologies for current and future civil
subsonic airplanes and jet engines to help achieve the Next Generation
Air transportation System (NextGen) goals. These goals are intended to
increase airspace system capacity by significantly reducing the impact
of noise and air quality emissions on communities.
The CLEEN program’s goals include the maturation of new aircraft
technologies for introduction beginning in 2015. The goals include
reduction of aircraft fuel burn by 33 percent below current technology,
reduction of noise by 32db cumulative below Stage 4 levels, and
reductions of NOx emissions by 60 percent below CAEP 6 standards. Pratt
& Whitney will work to further advance jet engine technologies to
achieve additional fuel, emissions and noise benefits through 2025.
“The PurePower PW1000G(r) engine, which is scheduled for entry into
service in 2013, already enables Pratt & Whitney to deliver world class
levels of fuel burn, noise, and emissions,” said Alan Epstein, Pratt &
Whitney vice president, Technology & Environment. “Unlike conventional
turbofans based on existing technology that have been stretched to its
limits to achieve added efficiencies, the geared turbofan engine
technology has runway and should achieve fuel burn savings of 25-35
percent by the 2020s. The gear changes everything.”
The PurePower family of engines is designed to power the next generation
of passenger aircraft. The combination of its gear system and advanced
core allows PurePower engines to deliver double-digit improvements in
fuel efficiency and emissions with a 50-percent reduction in noise over
today’s engines.
GE Aviation Receives Award for FAA CLEEN Research
June 29, 2010
GE Aviation Receives Award for FAA CLEEN Research
EVENDALE, OH – June 24, 2010 — GE Aviation received an award from the
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as part of the Continuous Lower
Energy, Emissions and Noise (CLEEN) program. CLEEN is an FAA program to
accelerate the development and maturation of aircraft and engine
technologies that reduce noise and emissions and improve fuel burn. The
program goal is to enable the new technologies to enter the fleet
beginning in 2015. GE and the FAA will share the investment of up to $66
million for up to a five-year period.
The CLEEN award will help fund three GE technologies, including TAPS II
Combustor, Open Rotor and Flight Management System – Air Traffic
Management (FMS-ATM).
“GE has always invested in advanced technologies to lower fuel burn,
emissions and noise,” said Dale Carlson, Advanced Engine Systems for GE
Aviation. “This CLEEN award will allow us to quicken our pace on
research on key technologies that will provide our customers with more
fuel efficient technologies to help reduce their costs and their impact
on the environment.”
The three GE technologies being funded are:
* TAPS II Combustor: GE is developing the TAPS II combustor for
its new engine core, called eCore. eCore will be part of CFM
International’s* new LEAP-X engine for narrowbody aircraft as well as
the new core for GE’s next generation regional and business jet engines.
The new core will offer up to 16 percent better fuel efficiency than
GE’s best engines in service today. GE began testing the TAPS II
combustor in June 2009 at a special altitude test chamber in Evendale,
Ohio, as part of the first eCore tests. The results were very positive.
CLEEN funding will help advance dynamic modeling and size scaling of the
TAPS II combustor.
* Flight Management System – Air Traffic Management (FMS-ATM):
Advanced FMS-ATM technology will enable commercial and military aircraft
to routinely fly more optimum trajectories resulting in less fuel,
emissions and noise. The CLEEN award will include technology
demonstrations with Lockheed Martin, AirDat and Alaska Airlines. The
program will develop and demonstrate two primary components:
* Improvement to GE’s FMS trajectory algorithms for fuel,
emissions and noise performance,
* Development of technology to enable the airborne FMS to
digitally exchange information with the En Route Automation
Modernization (ERAM) developed and deployed by Lockheed Martin. This
allows the FAA to enable the 4-dimensional trajectory-based FMS to fly
more optimum trajectories within the national air space.
* Open Rotor: Back in the 1980s, GE successfully ground tested and
flew an open rotor or unducted fan engine, which offered significant
fuel efficiency advantages over conventional ducted fan engines. By
applying today’s advanced data acquisition systems and computational
design tools to the open rotor engine, GE has improved the design to
reduce fuel consumption by 26 percent and address noise challenges. Last
year, GE started wind tunnel testing with NASA to evaluate
counter-rotating fan systems for an open rotor engine. The CLEEN award
will support blade aero-acoustic and pitch change mechanism research.
Open rotor engine designs are among the longer-term technologies being
evaluated for the LEAP-X engine.
SaM146 regional jet engine certified by EASA
June 29, 2010
European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), today presented the typecertificate for the SaM146 engine to Jean-Paul Ebanga, Chairman and CEO ofPowerJet. The ceremony was attended by Philippe Petitcolin, Chairman andCEO of Snecma and Ilya Fedorov, CEO of NPO Saturn, the two parentcompanies of PowerJet.
The SaM146 is now certified for service on regional jet aircraft. Approval byRussian certification agency Avia Register is expected within a few weeks.
According to EASA head Patrick Goudou: “This certification shows that theSaM146 engine fully complies with EU safety regulations. It is the culminationof a particularly successful collaboration between PowerJet, the InterstateAviation Committee of Russia and EASA. It marks the first certification of anaircraft engine jointly designed and produced in France and in Russia.”
“We are very proud of earning the type certificate for our SaM146 engine,”said Jean-Paul Ebanga, Chairman and CEO of PowerJet. “PowerJet willprovide a state-of-the-art engine right from service entry of the SukhoiSuperjet 100. This is also a landmark in relations between the European andRussian aerospace industries. We are now looking forward to seeing theSaM146 enter revenue service in the next few months.”
The SaM146 completed its certification tests on May 26 by passing the finalmedium bird ingestion test. Throughout the certification test program, theSaM146’s performance has fully met or exceeded expectations. The SaM146engine has logged 7,100 hours of testing to date, including 3,500 hours inflight.
PowerJet is now focusing on the ramp-up in engine production, as well asgearing up for in-service support to ensure customer satisfaction.
Russian Helicopters and AgustaWestland Start Building Joint Civil AW139 Final Assembly Line Plant
June 23, 2010
22 June 2010 – Russian Helicopters (subsidiary of JSC UIC Oboronprom, part of Russian Technologies State Corporation) and AgustaWestland (a Finmeccanica company) are pleased to announce that the set up of a joint civil AW139 medium twin helicopter final assembly plant started with a ground-breaking ceremony today. A time capsule was laid in the base of the foundation at the industrial area in Tomilino, near Moscow, during the official ceremony which was attended by representatives and dignitaries from the partners.
The final assembly line is being built on a 40,000 m2 site. The projected capacity is in excess of 20 helicopters per year, with production expected to progressively increase, from 5 units in 2011 to a steady state regime in 2015. The total headcount at maximum capacity will be over 100 people.
The plant, aimed at meeting the requirements of the civil markets in Russia and CIS countries primarily and – through the AgustaWestland network – for the rest of the world, will be run by HeliVert, a Russian Helicopters and AgustaWestland “equal” joint venture.
The ground-breaking milestone is the latest achievement under the framework of the strategic cooperation between UIC Oboronprom and AgustaWestland which started in the summer of 2007 with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding “for cooperation development in the field of helicopter production”. A Heads of Agreement was later signed in Farnborough in July 2008 for the purpose of establishing a joint venture to set up and run a civil AW139 final assembly line in Russia. This was followed by the Joint Venture Agreement signed on November 6th 2008 during the Italy-Russia intergovernmental summit held at the Kremlin in Moscow and attended by the Russian President Dmitri Medvedev and the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. A shareholder agreement was subsequently signed in June 2010 paving the path to start building the plant in Tomilino.
According to Sergey Chemezov, Director General of Russian Technologies “The organisation of a joint Russian-Italian helicopter assembly plant is a new step in developing our business relations with our strategic partner, Italian company Finmeccanica. This is an important event not only for the helicopter industry, but for Russian mechanical engineering as a whole. It is noteworthy that this is happening in difficult financial and economic conditions and proves that the crisis can and must be fought with joint efforts and using all opportunities.”
Oboronprom Director General Andrey Reus said “The start of the plant’s construction signifies a new stage of the growing mutually beneficial cooperation between Russian and Italian helicopter manufacturers. Thanks to it we will gain access to new technical production solutions and high helicopter servicing quality standards. We will seek to broaden our cooperation, including by gradually localizing Italian helicopter manufacture in Russia.”
“Russian Helicopters is increasing its presence in foreign markets, delivering Russian rotorcraft to foreign customers and opening service centres,” Russian Helicopters COO Andrei Shibitov said, “In this respect we are greatly interested in the foreign experience of organizing, managing, planning, certificating production processes and know-how in managing the entire lifecycle of a product. We are set to gain maximum benefit from joint work with our Italian partners. Russian helicopters will strengthen Russia’s commercial positions in the international helicopter market.”
“We have been building a remarkable industrial base in Russia in recent years by establishing major collaborations with prime local companies in various fields of the civil sector.” Pier Francesco Guarguaglini, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Finmeccanica, said. “This latest landmark provides clear evidence of our commitment to playing an increasing role in the region by the mean of a mutually beneficial industrial cooperation, particularly in the civil rotorcraft sector.”
Giuseppe Orsi, Chief Executive Officer of AgustaWestland added “It gives us great pleasure to be here with our Russian partners, both concretely and symbolically, laying the foundations of what we are confident will be a bright future of industrial cooperation based on the world best selling AW139. This model has been identified and selected by Russian industry as the benchmark helicopter in its category to meet a variety of demanding requirements in the Russian and CIS civil markets.”
ALENIA AERMACCHI IN POLAND
June 23, 2010
Alenia Aermacchi – a Finmeccanica company – a world leader in the design, production of military training aircraft and integrated solutions, attended the Air Show at the Deblin base in Poland at 19th June, with its aircraft M-346.
The Italian company was directly invited by Polish Air Force Academy on occasion of their 85th anniversary, celebrated this year.
The M-346 Master attended at the flight display in Deblin with the Chief Test Pilot of Alenia Aermacchi, Cpt. Quirino Bucci. The M-346 flight display drew attention of the highest-ranking officers of the Polish Air Force and of all those who were present at the event.
On this occasion of their 85th anniversary, the Polish Academy and the 4th Air Force Training Wing, organized the Science Conference: “Into the future, with aviation knowledge and experience – the 85° anniversary of Polish Air Force Academy” which took place on 17-18th June.
Alenia Aermacchi attended this conference in the Section IV, dedicated to the future of training, with a lecture on “M-346: most advanced and safe platform to train future generation military pilots”.
It is not the first time that the l’M-346 Master goes to Poland.
In October 2006 the Alenia Aermacchi aircraft performed some evaluation flights at the Polish Airbase of Deblin, with the participation of the highest-ranking officers in the Polish Air Force.
In that occasion the high rank Air Force Personnel had appreciated the flying quality and the training effectiveness of the M-346.
A320 Family tops 50 million flights
June 23, 2010
Workhorse of the industry carries in excess of 5.000.000.000 (5 billion) people
The world’s most popular single-aisle aircraft, the A320 Family, has achieved over 50 million take offs and landings since the first model, the A320, entered commercial service in 1988. Over this period, A320 Family aircraft have carried in excess of five billion people. With ten take-offs every minute, they have become a familiar sight at airports and in our skies.
“One of our A320 Family aircraft takes off every six seconds somewhere around the world and they have carried more than five billion people, which is a huge achievement”, said John Leahy, Airbus Chief Operating Officer, Customers. “We are investing at least 100 million euros a year in the A320 Family in order to maintain it as the world’s most modern and fuel efficient aircraft family that will continue to bring people together for the decades to come”.
The A320 Family has firmly established itself as market leader with all kinds of airlines, such as low cost, network or charter operators and in all regions of the world. Painted in some 250 different airline colours, A320 Family aircraft can be found 365 days a year at the world’s busiest and largest airport hubs. There are ten operators today with more than 100 A320 Family aircraft in their fleets. In contrast, A320 Family aircraft also operate at smaller airports and even in some of the most remote areas of the globe such as the Kingdom of Bhutan in the Eastern Himalayas thanks to their unique versatility.
This aviation success story can be partly attributed to Airbus’ 100 million euro annual investment that keeps the A320 Family technology state of the art, maintaining it as the most fuel efficient and modern aircraft family in its category.
One illustration of the A320 continuous improvements are the new fuel-saving Sharklet wing tip devices launched by Airbus at the end of 2009. These devices will enhance the eco-efficiency and payload-range performance of the A320 Family even further and are expected to reduce the fuel consumption by at least 3.5 per cent over longer sectors. This corresponds to an annual CO2 reduction of around 700 tonnes per aircraft. Starting with the A320, the Sharklets will be available as an option on A320 Family models from the end of 2012.
Airbus is fully committed to maintaining the A320 Family at the top of the single-aisle aircraft market and to ensuring that the best keeps getting better.
The A320 Family (A318, A319, A320 and A321) is recognised as the benchmark single-aisle aircraft family. With over 6,500 aircraft sold, and more than 4,300 aircraft delivered to some 310 customers and operators worldwide, the A320 Family is the world’s best-selling single-aisle aircraft family.
Cessna’s Pelton: “Cooperation is Key to the Future of Aviation”
June 21, 2010
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 21, 2010 ˆ Jack J. Pelton, chairman, president and CEO of Cessna Aircraft Company, said today all aviation stakeholders must work together to ensure the health of the industry. Pelton made the remarks at the monthly luncheon meeting of the Aero Club of Washington D.C.
He said the negative rhetoric around the general aviation industry has died down thanks to the combined efforts of the GA stakeholders. “This cooperation we’ve experienced in general aviation must span all areas of aviation,” he said, “and the Future of Aviation Advisory Committee launched by DOT Secretary La Hood is an excellent start.” Pelton represents general aviation on the committee.
In his remarks, Pelton sited three key issues that will most impact the aviation industry: the pilot population, environmental concerns and the Next Generation Air Transportation System.
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration expects the number of student pilots nationwide to fall to a 10-year low of about 69,000 next year. That will equate to a nearly 30 percent decrease during the first decade of the 21st century.
“This is a problem for all of us in aviation, and all of us should be part of the solution,” Pelton told the group of aviation industry leaders. “Fewer pilots equate to less business for all of us, and it threatens the strong, sustainable aviation system our nation counts on.”
“Gone are the days when the military was producing all the pilots the airlines could absorb, or when a broader GI Bill funded expansive flight training for veterans returning to civilian life,” he said. “We need legislation that fosters and stimulates our industry,” he added.
On the environment, Pelton said aviation has established an outstanding track record in reducing its environmental impact. “The market demands efficiency. And with greater fuel efficiency comes reduced emissions. Still, we recognize there is much more we must do,” he said.
“The philosophy of the Lindbergh Foundation has it right ˆ we must pursue policies and practices that balance progress and technology with environmental sensitivity,” he said.
Pelton said the same considerations need to be made as the government revamps the national airspace and develops the next generation air traffic management system, commonly called NextGen, although he is encouraged by the level of cooperation between industry and government in early stages.
“It’s encouraging to see this type of cooperation and I hope it will continue as we look to deploy components of the NextGen program,” said Pelton. “That is the only way to truly ensure the safety, efficiency, and economic and environmental benefits we are all counting on from NextGen.”
The Aero Club of Washington, founded in 1909, is dedicated to building public awareness of aviation and aerospace issues.
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